Rachel Feldhay Brenner, The Ethics of Witnessing: The Holocaust in Polish Writers’ Diaries from Warsaw, 1939-1945 (Northwestern University Press)Friederike Kind-Kovács, Written Here, Published There: How Underground Literature Crossed the Iron Curtain (Central European University Press)

Valerie Sperling, Sex, Politics, and Putin: Political Legitimacy in Russia (Oxford University Press)

Honorable Mention: Yanni Kotsonis, States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic (University of Toronto Press)Honorable Mention: Samuel A. Greene, Moscow in Movement: Power and Opposition in Putin’s Russia (Stanford University Press)

Ed A Hewett Book Prizefor outstanding publication on the political economy of Russia, Eurasia and/or Eastern Europe

Yanni Kotsonis, States of Obligation: Taxes and Citizenship in the Russian Empire and Early Soviet Republic (University of Toronto Press)

Honorable Mention: Kelly M. McMann, Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia (Cornell University Press)

Barbara Jelavich Book Prize for a distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history

Marshall Shulman Book Prize for an outstanding monograph dealing with the international relations, foreign policy, or foreign-policy decision-making of any of the states of the former Soviet Union or Eastern Europe

Oscar Sanchez-Sibony, Red Globalization: The Political Economy of the Soviet Cold War from Stalin to Khrushchev (Cambridge University Press)

Honorable Mention: Austin Jersild, The Sino-Soviet Alliance: An International History (UNC Press)

Michael Fleming, Auschwitz, the Allies and Censorship of the Holocaust (Cambridge University Press)Per Anders Rudling, The Rise and Fall of Belarusian Nationalism 1906-1931 (University of Pittsburgh Press)

Robert C. Tucker/Stephen F. Cohen Dissertation Prize for an outstanding English-language doctoral dissertation in Soviet or Post-Soviet politics and history in the tradition practiced by Robert C. Tucker and Stephen F. Cohen, defended at an American or Canadian university

Masha Kirasirova, “The Eastern International: ‘The Domestic East’ and the ‘Foreign East’ in Soviet-Arab Relations, 1917-68,” New York University

Adrianne K. Jacobs, “An Edible Empire: Soviet National Cuisines between Tradition and Modernity, 1965-85,” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The prize winners will be recognized during the ASEEES Annual Convention award ceremony on Saturday, November 21, 7:00pm, in Philadelphia. The event is open to the public. The prize citations will be printed in the convention program